AWARD OF THE FISHKRY COMMISSION. 2141 



Q. Can you tell me where you were fishing when Timer* wi 

 you ? A. No ; I could not tell you the year. 



Q. You cannot tell in what part of the' bay you caught vour fl.li when 

 Powers was with you ? A. No. 



Q. Cannot you give the Commission any sort of idea? A. No. 



Q. Not where you caught most of them f A. No. 



Q. Did you catch the largest part at Margaree when Powers ** 

 with you ? A. I could not answer the question. 



Q. I ask you to remember if possible! A. It is impoiuiible. 



Q. Is it impossible for you to say whether, when Power* of I'rmpert 

 was fishing in your vessel, you did not catch mmt of the lUli at Mar 

 garee I A. I could not say. 



Q. Within three miles of the shore ! A. I could not say. 



Q. Did you carry cod-tishing gear with you when you went mackerrl- 

 fishing? A. No. 



Q. Not atall ? you never caught any codtish on those trips T A. Jut 

 to eat ; nothing else. 



Q. Have you ever been in B ly Chaleurs ? A. No. 



By Mr. Foster : 



" Q. What do you understand by the phrase " lee-bowing "f A. When 

 one vessel gets up a school of mackerel and a neighbor comes along Md 

 sees the vessel catching them, and being too lazy and not wanting to 

 waste his bait, he goes round very close to the vessel and heave* out a 

 little bait, and drifts off and gets the mackerel to follow his vexsel. 



By Mr. Weatherbe : 



Q. I understood that you did not know what lee-bowir.g boat* waa, 

 and that you had not heard the phrase! A. I Maid I hail not. 



Q. You never heard of lee-bowing boats? A. If you will give re* an 

 idea of what you call a boat, I will be better able to answer you. 



Q. Have "you ever heard of lee-bowing boats ? A. No. 



Q. You understand the question ? A. I understand it |>erfectly. 

 never heard of it. 



Q. You know what a boat means ! A. They sometimes call our fl 

 iog-smacks of 70 or 80 tous boats. If you mean fishing vessel* of 

 tons, I tell you, yes. 



Q. Of boats smaller than that, you never heard i 

 would term boats, no. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Q. Explain what you mean by boats. A. Small IMNUM, *uru us i 

 on Nova Scotia shore and some parts of Maine, of five, six, m 



By Mr. Weatherbe : 



Q. These are what you call boats ? A. Yes. 

 Q. You never heard of vessels lee bowing them 



By Mr. Foster : 

 Q. Explain why. A. Because they fish to an am 



By Sir Alexander Gait: 



Q. Could you not do the same with a boat fishing to an 

 a boat drifting? If a boat is at anchor catchm* ma- 

 vessel run in, throw out bait and drift oft. and take 

 A. No ; vessels of 70, 80, or 100 tons cannot run 

 fishing to an anchor. There are tlie wind and tide to c 



